There is only one way to write.
Make sure you have a dedicated place to write – your writer’s desk, your writing place, your special time on the porch with tea, coffee, and a purring cat. Open Scrivener, SmartEditWriter, or WriteWay.
It’s even better if you can write at the same time every day.
Figure your genre word count.
Set a deadline. 30 days or 90. I really recommend 30 days.
Plan your work.
Now, here’s the last step. I don’t feel like writing. I’d rather see what happens when you dump heated table salt into water, or maybe look up people who drive badly.
Ignore that. If you need to, get one of those distraction free programs that blocks YouTube, Twitter, etc.
Sit in your writing place, at your writing time. Lie to yourself and say you’re going to write only 300 words tonight, and then go look up ragdoll cats.
Turn on some good soundtrack music, maybe James Horner.
Start writing. We’re only doing 300 words tonight.
Hey, there’s an idea. Let me expand on that.
I forgot that’s the scene where Dave finds the truck on the side of the road. I’ll just flesh that out a little.
Oh, yeah – Patricia gets the phone call. Write that scene. Just set it up.
Oh, now I know what to do when Dave finds the truck!
Hey! I just wrote 2100 words???
That’s what you do when you don’t want to write.
